Lena Lauzemis

Emeryka loses control of her life through the intrigue of a mysterious character named The Something and is led to an adventurous escape to a female sect, for which she has to leave her daughter behind. It is a story about the right to choose how each person defines themselves in terms of gender and sexuality.

남매인 폴과 이리나는 낯선 이들에 이끌려 외딴섬 푸스트의 종교 공동체와 함께 자란다. 지하에서 비누만 만들던 이리나에게 푸스트는 청결의 상징인 히기에이아 여신의 역할을 제안하고, 누나를 위층으로 보내고 지하에 혼자 남은 폴은 하류층 아이들과 혁명을 꿈꾸는데...

철의 장막이 무너지고 동독과 서독을 나누던 베를린 장벽이 사라진 1989년. 동독에 거주하는 재단사 아담과 웨이트리스 에블린은 평온한 삶을 살아가는 커플이다. 여름 휴가를 준비 중이던 두 사람이지만, 아담의 바람기를 의심한 에블린은 친구들과 헝가리로 휴가를 떠나버리고, 그런 에블린을 찾아가던 아담은 한 여성이 서쪽으로 이주하는 걸 몰래 돕는다. 그리고 두 사람에게도 선택의 순간이 찾아온다. 미래를 위해 고향을 떠나 서쪽으로 갈 것인가, 그대로 머물 것인가. 잉고 슐츠의 동명 원작을 각색한 은 냉전 시대의 마지막을 살아낸 평범한 독일사람의 초상을 담는다. 영화는 두 사람이 이주를 결심하는 명확한 극적 동기나 심리적 갈등을 제시하지 않는다. 대신 집과 정원, 나른하고 평화로운 시골길 등 다양한 공간 속의 두 사람을 반복적으로 보여주면서, 역사 정치적 의미보다는 사적인 역사의 저장고로서의 고향을 떠나야 하는 상황을 시각적으로 강조한다. 은 올해 베니스영화제 비평가주간에서 처음으로 공개되었다. (박진형/2018년 제23회 부산국제영화제)

The insurance salesman Vincent Baumann, a cold-blooded careerist and minion of a merciless system, becomes a victim of the very corporations he is representing. Degraded to a henchman he grimly struggles to get back on the job market. He fights to climb the social ladder. In the process he realizes that there are other values than income and success. He decides against his previous ideology and for another human being, for Lisa Sokulowa. They don’t have a future. But they celebrate a small triumph against the dominance of the ruling system.

After the death of her mother, Bea Kanter leaves her home in Hesse in order to start her studies in Frankfurt. She leaves her father Norbert and her younger sister Conny behind. Thanks to her fellow student Andrea, the shy student quickly finds a connection. She moves into a WG and is confronted with the left scene, the rebels of the 1970s. This fits in with her inner life, because she has to distract herself mentally from her father - a conservative entrepreneur, for Bea the epitome of the capitalist. So she becomes a radical rebel.

A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.

Lynn Zapatek, a chambermaid in a large hotel, has a deathly fear of human interaction yet she craves intimacy. A chance encounter prompts her to emerge from her cocoon.

Helene and Martha spend the summer holidays in the polish cottage of Marthas parents where they get as close as never before. Two women, one hot summer, and a short goodbye.

Documentary about a juvenile prison in Mexico City.

In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West Germany. Dedicated to the power of the written word, Bernward and Gudrun found a publishing house whose first publication is, paradoxically to many, a controversial past work of Bernward's ostracized father, an infamous Nazi author. Bernward defends his father's writing ability, even if he is haunted by his father's suspicious past.

Berlin during the Nazi reign: Young music student Ursula is a talented musician and a fervent admirer of the "Führer". When she is asked to assist renowned composer Broch, who was ordered to compose a cantata for Hitler′s 50th birthday, it first seems like a dream fulfilled. Over the time, Broch and Ursula fall in love, and her relationship with the former communist gradually changes Ursula′s perspective on the realities of Nazi Germany. But falling in love with a Nazi means a huge moral conflict for Broch.

Dejan fled to Germany in order to start a new life because of the war in Yugoslavia. But the past does not let him go: Again and again, three friends from war-time are haunted as ghosts by Dejan's perception and bring him out of balance. On the flight from his visions, Dejan meets 19-year-old Anna. But the demons do not let him go, and Dejan is helpless with his aggressiveness. The relationship is growing, but Dejan's attempts to break out of his delusions, his Yugotrip, fail. Ultimately, Anna is aware that Dejan was not just a victim in this war.

A 19-year-old French woman travels to a country at war and finds herself trapped in a house full of women with a number of other young arrivals from all corners of the globe. In order to survive, she becomes an assistant to the director, Madame, who exerts a powerful fascination over Rabia. Their master-slave relationship drives Rabia to go beyond the limits of her convictions, until she can no longer bear the monster the system is turning her into